M 5.2 Off-shore on 18 Jul 2016 08:59 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1090195
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 29.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.3748 , -71.7858
Event Date: 18 Jul 2016 08:59 UTC
18 Jul 2016 04:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2016 09:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006fhz Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 913 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

M&D's apologise after poor taste billboard appears weeks after rollerc ... Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:47:00 +0200.

M&D's theme park has been forced to apologise after a billboard for a new ride appeared in South Lanarkshire displaying the words "Bring on the fear". The advertisement for the Giant Condor attraction appeared on a street in Hamilton just w
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COMUNICADO: La tragedia del terremoto conecta dos continentesFri, 22 Jul 2016 08:25:00 +0200.

LAGOS, Nigeria, July 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SURAMÉRICA RECIBE AYUDA DE UNA ORGANIZACIÓN CARITATIVA DE ÁFRICA. El 16 de abril de 2016, la nación de Ecuador fue sacudida por un terremoto colosal con magnitud 7,8. La severidad del desastre s
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La tragedia del terremoto conecta dos continentesFri, 22 Jul 2016 08:24:00 +0200.

LAGOS, Nigeria July 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SURAMÉRICA RECIBE AYUDA DE UNA ORGANIZACIÓN CARITATIVA DE ÁFRICA. El 16 de abril de 2016, la nación de Ecuador fue sacudida por un terremoto colosal con magnitud 7,8. La severidad del desastre se
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GeoNet turns 15 - what have we learned about earthquakes in that time?Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:18:00 +0200.

"There was a little print-out with the machine that the farmer would look at ... or we could ring them and ask for a manual reading." GeoNet's original director, Hugh Cowan, said his early work overseas showed him how the impact of disaster
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),